Goldberg said that he was outraged that there were “dozens of results” on Google if “you type in Chris Christie and Watergate.”

“Which is beyond idiotic. To compare a partial lane closure on the George Washington Bridge to Watergate is ridiculous,” he insisted. “The state of Illinois has seen half of its governors since 1960 go to jail. None of them have gotten this kind of coverage.”

“You know who isn’t running for president is President Barack Obama and he’s actually the president and I’ve seen nothing like the kind of passion and intensity that we’ve seen,” Goldberg added.

“About Obama? On TV?” AMERICAblog founder John Aravosis laughed.

“In terms of potential wrongdoing and investigations from any network, certainly like MSNBC, other than Fox,” Goldberg asserted. “We had a report come out this week about Benghazi, right? Which was incredibly damning to the State Department? Where has been the drumbeat of reporters on Hillary Clinton’s lawn saying, when are you going to comment?”

“I’m not saying it has no merit at the national level,” he continued. “I’m saying that the level of scrutiny and hysteria that has been aimed at this story is so wildly disproportionate to the reality of it.”

After taking a job with Fox News, Kurtz asked if there had been too much coverage of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi but avoided mentioning Fox News and did not theorize that the coverage had been partisan.

About the Author

David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006. His work can also be found at Crooks & Liars, and he's also been published at The BRAD BLOG. He came to Raw Story after working as a network manager for the state of North Carolina and as as engineer developing enterprise resource planning software. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.